Polyfest back with strong diversity showing
14 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM
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Saint Cuthbert’s College Korean Fan Dancing group perform at Polyfest. Video / Michael Craig
Backstage left, a group of Korean dancers from St Cuthbert s College are on the move, their long, fluorescent robes rustling. They are about to go on stage at Polyfest, and they re excited. We were so worried it would be cancelled, said Year 13 student Karen Liu, who is of Chinese descent. It s nice to have Polyfest back.
The Māori and Pasifika festival sees tens of thousands of secondary school students perform and compete in music, speech, and dance every year. But it was canned last year due to Covid-19, and disrupted the year before because of the Christchurch mosque shootings.
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Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia. (File photo: Screenshot from Sugbo News Facebook Live)
+ April 13, 2021 THE Cebu Provincial Government is planning to take back the 679-square-meter property along Gorordo Avenue that was donated by the previous administration in August 2018 to the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) 7.
Governor Gwendolyn Garcia said the donation was “defective.” She said that the Commission on Audit (COA) submitted an observation that the donation did not have its approval.
“This deed of donation needs to be revoked and enter into a deed of usufruct with CIDG for another piece of property that the CIDG and Cebu Provincial Government decide upon in the designated government center,” said Garcia.
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